440MTB

Hey there everyone, trust you're having an awesome Friday! Just thought I'd share my thoughts/experience... As someone who is pretty new here, and as someone who's "wheeled and dealed" a fair bit in my life... I found BikeHub to be a nice alternative to the norm, and I come here to escape the Gumtree mentality of some buyers/sellers, but it seems James from BikeMarket.co.za or @WeBuyBicycles on BikeHub wants to make BH like Gumtree... Offering R14k less than asking price... ? Surely as someone in the business of selling yourself, you must be accustomed to every man and his dog low-balling you, and I'm sure you don't entertain or appreciate when people do this, so not sure why one would do this here?

Sorry to see this OP - People are strange... All the best man.

Legend response! Really appreciated man. Going to give my Scott a go and see how it holds up, I was under the impression forks are a bit more expensive to replace, but see one can get a decent upgrade here for a decent price, so I'll just ride this one (and maintain it well) and see how it goes, not planning on doing any mega gaps soon anyway. 😅 LOL! If you supply the funds to do so, let's go! Hahaha Still have the Sola, but it's a 100mm, so not going to work - I'll fine tune the Judy and see how it goes... 🤙 For sure! Hahahaha. 🤣😅 Like I said, if he's willing to pay, I'll replace everything. 😝 All good man - Going to stick with this one and see how it goes! 👍👍 Good advice. Thanks for reply! 😃👍

Hey there! So I got back into Mountain Biking in Jan 2022 (haven't been on a bike in 7 years!) as purchased a very neat 2015 Silverback Sola 2 29er (Hardtail) with a RockShox Recon Gold fork (100mm Travel with 32mm Stanchions), XT 2x 10, etc. and I've racked up around 1000km on the bike here in the lovely Bottelary Hills MTB area and surrounds (in Cape Town) since then. I then saw a very neat 2019 Scott Spark 970 here on Bike Hub which I bought from @The Bike Vendor. The bike arrived in one piece (thanks again Leon!) and it looks basically brand new. The Scott came with a 1x 10 setup which consisted of a Deore M6000-SGS Rear derailleur and wide range Shimano CS-HG500-10 (11-42t) cassette and 32T ring up front on the stock Shimano Crankset, I then saw the 1x12 SLX kit on sale, but was disheartened when I realized it was only compatible with Microspline Freehubs, so I got a complete SRAM NX Eagle 1x 12 upgrade kit which was fitted this week when the bike was in for a major service (for peace of mind). I only today realized the RockShox Judy Silver TK that came on the bike has 30mm Stanchions, and I'm not sure about the quality of the X-Fushion Pro O2 RL that came on the rear either, and I'm a bit concerned about the fact I'm going from 32mm to 30mm from the Recon to the Judy now. So, cutting one short story long... on to my question. I like riding stuff like Meerendal, Bottelary Hills MTB, etc, maybe trails a tad rougher down the line, would the Scott hold up with the thin stanchions and NX groupset, or would it be best to rather try sell the bike again and look for something a bit more beefy (at least SLX/GX groupset and 32mm stanchions)? I really don't want to put wear on the bike only to find out it's not going to work for my needs, as I can rather sell it and look for something more suited for my needs, but I've not been into riding MTBs long enough to know what will work/last for my riding needs. As for my build, I'm 1.81m tall (ride Large frames) and weigh around 76kg.